Ah, what a dumb year it was! Fortune chose the absolutely dumbest of the dumb that the gods of fate and humor delivered into our laps - and yours - this past year.

In an interview with a British rock magazine, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards admits to snorting his father's ashes: "He was cremated, and I couldn't resist
grinding him up with a little bit of blow." A day later Richards denies the incident, explaining, "I was trying to say how tight Bert and I were - that tight!"